Re: Error: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

Yuri Smetsers <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:23:27 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.zope.silva.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Martijn,

Due to illness, I wasn't able to respond earlier, sorry 'bout that.

 > Do your page templates use any non-ascii characters, ones with 
accents for example?
Yes, I'm afraid so. :(

 > Replace the accented characters in the page template HTML with entity 
references, like this &egrave;, and it should work.
I'll try that, thanks.

Regards,
Yuri Smetsers

Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Yuri Smetsers wrote:
>
>> Hello developers,
>>
>> When loading some of newly added Silva documents, the following error
>>  occurs:
>>
>> *Error Type: UnicodeError*
>>
>>
>> Error Value: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> Most content is added by our webmaster, who uses an iMac (*sigh*) 
>> running Mac OS 9 and Mozilla 1.3 (hurray!), so I won't be able to 
>> reproduce the error. Zope and Silva are running on Debian Linux.
>>
>> Is this a known bug? If more input is needed, please ask. :)
>
>
> Do your page templates use any non-ascii characters, ones with accents
> for example? If so, you'll see this error for any documents that have
> accents in them as well. Documents without special characters (such as
> accented characters, euro signs or chinese, will be fine).
>
> Replace the accented characters in the page template HTML
> with entity references, like this &egrave;, and it should work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn
>
>
>